Green house gas promoters wrong

The News-Star reprinted an editorial from the Kansas City Star about "man made" global warming and used the headline "The Cost of Ignorance." The editorial, and in fact most of today's media, take as a "given fact" the fossil fuel greenhouse gases are heating up the earth. They, and the scientists and politicians who promote that theory, are wrong.

Anyone who is a student of the earth's geology will confirm that the earth is in a constant state of change. Its goes through periods of global warming and global cooling. There have been periods in our recorded history when the average global temperatures were higher than at the present time.

Studies have shown that the earth came into a warm period around 250 B.C. and it lasted to about 400 A.D. (Roman warming) The population of the earth flourished in that time frame.

Global cooling occurred from 400 A.D. to 800 A.D. (Dark Ages). The result was widespread famine and sickness.

The Medieval warming started about 800 A.D. and lasted to 1300 A.D. The population of England and France tripled. Iceland and Greenland were settled and food was plentiful. Then the earth slipped into another cooling period known as the Little Ice Age (1300-1850 A.D.) Iceland and Greenland were abandoned because it was too cold to grow food or graze animals. Areas in Europe that had supported food production had to be abandoned because of the cold. There was widespread hunger and social unrest.

The earth began a warming cycle around 1850 and we are probably still in it.

Two conclusions can be drawn from the above facts. One, there were no greenhouse gases from man's activities that caused the Roman, Medieval or the start of the present warming period. Two, humans fare better in warm periods.

The real cost of ignorance will be if the citizens of the United States fall for the hoax of "man made global warming" and allow massive taxes to be imposed to lessen carbon dioxide emissions.

There have been periods in earth's history when carbon dioxide levels were 100 times the present concentration. When doomsday stories appear about the effect of rising C02, the media should be asking serious questions, like: What happened to the excess C02 in geological history? Explain the Roman and Medieval warming periods. Who benefits from a carbon tax?

A thousand more questions could be asked.

Frank Spooner

Monroe

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Green house gas promoters wrong

The News-Star reprinted an editorial from the Kansas City Star about 'man made' global warming and used the headline 'The Cost of Ignorance.' The editorial, and in fact most of today's media, take as